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This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the famous story ‘Rumpelstilzchen’. Hockney says he was intrigued by the idea of drawing something entirely abstract and focusing on the contrasting textures of the straw and the gold. He drew the straw with pencil on soft ground to mimic the relative softness of hay, whereas he drew the gold with a precise line to show its hardness.
Straw on the left, gold on the right (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm) 1969
Etching W S Hodgkinson paper
Plate 5.9 x 9.6 in / 15 x 24.4 cm
Paper 17.75 x 16 in / 45.09 x 40.64 cm
Unique publisher’s copy aside from the edition of 400 books and 100 portfolios
